March 5, 2026 Why did President Trump launch a war against Iran? Two reasons. First, electoral polls indicated a dramatic victory for anti-Trump Democrats in this fall’s Congressional elections. This would put a welcome end to Trump’s campaign to establish one-man rule in the United States. Losing the Senate and/or […]
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February 13, 2026 As the White House threatens war against Cuba, I am reminded of the charming evenings my parents and I spent at Havana’s venerable ‘Floridita Bar, sipping a newly invented cocktail, the Margarita, with the renowned writer, Ernest Hemingway. `Papa’ Hemingway, who then lived in Cuba, loved this […]
January 29, 2026 Vladimir Lenin observed that the fastest way to crush a nation was to debauch its currency. His famous quote was made in reference to Germany’s floundering Weimar Republic, but it is just as appropriate to today’s besieged Iran. Right now, a US fleet is steaming toward Iran, […]
